Catinella 219 



Type species, Peziza olivacea Batsch. 



1. Catinella nigroolivacea (Schw.) Durand, Bull. Torrey Club 

 49: 16. 1922. (Plate 114.) 



? Peziza olivacea Batsch, Elench. Fung. 127. 1783. 



Peziza nigroolivacea Schw. Schr. Nat. Ges. Leipzig 1: 121. 1822. 



Patellar ia piiUa nigroolivacea Fries, Syst. Myc. 2: 160. 1822. 



Bulgaria nigrita Fries, Elench. Fung. 2:16. 1828. 



Lemalis rufoolivacea Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 184. 1832. 



Rhizina nigroolivacea Curr. Trans. Linn. Soc. 24: 493. 1864. 



Peziza viridiatra Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 369. 1868. 



Patellaria violacea Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14: 108. 1875. 



Patellaria hirneola Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14: 108. 1875. 



Patellaria applanata Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14: 108. 1875. 



Peziza fuscocar pa Ellis & Holw. Jour. Myc. 1: 5. 1885. 



Patellaria olivacea Phill. Brit. Discom. 361. 1887. 



?Hutnaria olivacea Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 148. 1889. 



Pezicula viridiatra Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 315. 1889. 



Phaeopezia fuscocar pa Sacc. S>11. Fung. 8: 474. 1889. 



Bulgariella piilla nigroolivacea Sacc. S\il. Fung. 8: 638. 1889. 



Bulgariella nigrita Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 638. 1889. 



Patinella violacea Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 770. 1889. 



Patinella olivacea Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 770. 1889. 



Patinella hirneola Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 771. 1889. 



Patinella applanata Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 771. 1889. 



Humaria marchica Rehni in Rab. Krypt.-FI. P: 952. 1894. 



Phaeopezia marchica Sacc. Syll. Fung. 11: 415. 1895. 



Aleuria marchica Sacc. & Syd. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 16: 739. 1902. 



Humaria fuscocarpa Morgan, Jour. Myc. 8: 189. 1902. 



Aleuria fuscocarpa Sacc. & Syd. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 16: 739. 1902. 



Catinella olivacea Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 150. 1907. 



Apothecia sessile, solitary, or several crowded together, at- 

 tached to the substratum by numerous radiating, dark-brown 

 fibers more conspicuous in young plants, at first subglobose and 

 closed, then expanding with a permanently upturned margin, at 

 first entirely greenish-yellow, becoming dark-green, finally 

 blackish with an olive tint, when old the exterior brownish and 

 furfuraceous and vertically striate, fleshy and somewhat ge- 

 latinous when fresh, brittle when dry ; reaching a diameter of 1 cm. 

 but usually much smaller, mycelial fibers about the base very 

 coarse, straight, or strongly kinked, septate, dark-brown, reaching 

 a diameter of 10 /x, radiating 2-3 mm. beyond the base of the 

 apothecium; asci narrowly cylindric-clavate, 8-spored, reaching 

 a length of 75-90 n and a diameter of 5-6 n; spores 1 -seriate, 



